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Jamie Lynn Russell: One Pregnant Woman’s Tragic Death Reveals the Human Cost...
Read additional 2013 coverage of the personhood of women here. I don’t like war metaphor. I prefer to think about reproductive justice advocacy in terms of healing and love. But when our nonsensical...
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You Can’t Have it Both Ways: The Interpretation of Catholic Health Policy and...
Republished with permission from Reproductive Health Matters. For further coverage of the treatment of pregnant women in Catholic Hospitals, click here. “There is only one way to be sure a woman’s...
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The Pope, Pregnant Children, and Violence Against Girls and Women
I find it strange that Pope Benedict XVI chose a week that will culminate in a global strike to protest violence against women to retire. And for health reasons no less. Orange smoke and irony and all...
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Why I Refuse to Be Taken to a Catholic Hospital—And Why Other Women Should Too
Under no circumstances do I ever want to be brought to a Catholic hospital or medical facility. As a pregnant woman—and as a human being, period—I do not trust that my health needs will guide the care...
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Inquest Confirms Savita Halappanavar’s Life Was Subordinated to Non-Viable Fetus
Last year, RH Reality Check reported on the tragic and wholly preventable death of Savita Halappanavar at Galway University Hospital. Halappanavar, a dentist who was pregnant with her first child, was...
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High-Level Panel Takes Strong Stand for Health of Women, Girls
New recommendations by a high-level panel on population and development mark a major step forward in advancing the health of women and girls, who are widely acknowledged as the crux of global...
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Ireland’s Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill: 21 Years After X,...
In the wake of the tragic and preventable death of Savita Halappanavar, Irish politicians promised that the government would “not become the seventh to ‘neglect and ignore’ the issue of the Supreme...
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Family Planning Is Key to Healthy Pregnancies and Births
In the United States, an estimated 11,300 babies die each year on the day they are born, according to a new report from Save the Children. The United States has the highest first-day death rate in the...
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Anti-Abortion Laws Are Crimes Against Women
We know that reproductive rights are human rights, so clearly abortion laws are crimes against women. When I first wrote that, one of my friends wondered if it might be a bit melodramatic. Let’s just...
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Why Is El Salvador Letting a Woman Die?
See all our coverage of Beatriz here. Petition the El Salvadoran President and Supreme Court for Beatriz’s life here. This past month, the world has been watching a 22-year-old pregnant woman in El...
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Misoprostol Is a Game-Changer for Safe Abortion and Maternal Health Care. Why...
Misoprostol: Have you heard about this small, inexpensive, and most importantly available pill that can save women’s lives? Pragmatic Brazilian women first discovered the potential of misoprostol (or...
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The Cost of a Woman’s Life
Cross-posted with permission from the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Even though Naimah* had sought care a couple of times during her pregnancy at a clinic near her village in...
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‘We Are Beatriz’: Supporting Beatriz, and All the Women Like Her Around the...
The following remarks were made by Jessica González-Rojas, executive director at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, at Tuesday’s “We Are Beatriz” vigil in Washington, D.C. I have...
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‘We Are Beatriz’: These Are Our Stories
The following remarks were made by Debra Hauser, president of Advocates for Youth, at Tuesday’s “We Are Beatriz” vigil in Washington, D.C. In 1995, at the age 35, I found myself alone, pregnant, and...
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Texas Congressman: Masturbating Fetuses Prove Need for Abortion Ban
As the House of Representatives gears up for Tuesday’s debate on HR 1797, a bill that would outlaw virtually all abortions 20 weeks post fertilization, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) argued in favor of...
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How to Engage Women in Maternal Newborn and Child Health Advocacy and Services
Below is a presentation by Alice Welbourn given on May 29th, 2013 at Women Deliver on a Panel hosted by the H4+, in support of the global initiative Every Woman, Every Child, and the Inter-agency Task...
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Why a 20-Week Abortion Ban Is Unthinkable: One Woman’s Near-Death Experience
“If a woman grows weary and at last dies from childbearing, it matters not. Let her only die from bearing; she is there to do it.”—Martin Luther. When Martin Luther penned his now infamous words—”let...
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Forgotten Women: UNAIDS, PEPFAR, and ‘Keeping Mothers Alive’
Cross-posted with permission from The FCI Blog. Two years ago, in July 2011, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched a joint initiative with PEPFAR, the U.S. President’s Emergency...
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Just Have the Baby? A New Mom Reveals Why There Is No ‘Just,’ and Not...
My husband and I just had a baby. My first two trimesters weren’t easy (though they could have been worse), and then it got harder after I had my baby. So I have a lot more to say about the many...
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For Decades, Authorities Let Rogue Abortion Provider Harm Women, Despite...
On August 13, 2010, an 18-year-old New Jersey resident arrived in a clinic in Elkton, Maryland, to undergo a surgical abortion. She was 21-and-a-half weeks pregnant, and had driven just over an hour...
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